China unveils world’s 1st internet speed capable of transferring ‘150 HD movies in 1 second’

China has taken the wraps off the world’s fastest internet speed service capable of 1.2 terabit (TiB) per second (1,200 gigabits per second)...

China proposes limiting children to 2 hours of smartphone screen time

Chinese regulators have proposed limiting smartphone screen time for children.  Preventing addiction: The proposal laid out by the Cyberspac...

Delhi-born MIT student develops ‘mind-reading’ headset that can surf the internet

Arnav Kapur, a Delhi-born graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invented an artificial intelligence (AI)-enab...

How North Koreans access the real internet

While modern society has known North Korea for its isolationist policies, the so-called hermit kingdom is not completely cut off from the re...

North Korean internet outages caused by lone US hacker seeking payback

An American hacker took down several North Korean websites as revenge for the alleged attack carried out by the hermit nation against him i...

China launches effort to ‘purify’ the internet ahead of Lunar New Year celebration, Winter Games

China’s internet watchdog has launched a “purification” campaign to “clean up” Chinese social media users’ “illegal” online content as Lunar...

Frustrated man in China sets fire to ‘slow’ internet cables, causes days-long internet shutdown for thousands

A Chinese man took out his frustration on a public telecommunications box with optical fiber network cables by setting it on fire with a li...

Chinese lab claims world record with 6G breakthrough, 10 to 20 times faster than 5G

A state-run lab in China has reportedly recorded the world's fastest wireless transmission speed of 206.25 gigabits per second (Gbps) ...

Chinese Citizens Will Now Have to Scan Their Faces To Use the Internet

China has taken its internet censorship one step further by releasing a new regulation requiring its citizens to pass a facial recognition t...

Filipino Churro Shop Owner Destroys Racist Trolls Who Don’t Know the Churro is Part Asian

One of the founders of the famous churros food craze, The Loop, just slammed a racist internet troll with a positive Instagram post.   ...

Teen From India Ruthlessly Schools Donald Trump on Climate Change on Twitter

United States President Donald Trump was recently one-upped on Twitter by an 18-year-old student from India on the topic of climate change. ...

What is ‘UwU’ and Why Do People Keep Saying It?

Memes are hard. Not only are we struggling as a society to understand where these staples of internet irony source from, half the time we...

South Korea Fines Facebook $369,400 for Throttling Its User’s Connections

South Korea’s telecom authority is fining Facebook for illegally limiting user access which resulted in slowed connections in 2016 and 2017....

Meet the Indian American Man Destroying the Open Internet As We Know It

In the year of nuclear-wielding dictators and influential sexual predators, 44-year-old Ajit Pai has managed to become one of the most hated...

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Begs Net Neutrality ‘Activists’ to Stop Harassing his Wife and Kids

The Federal Communications Commission has come under fire for its attempt to rollback net neutrality, and caught in the crossfire between th...

Russia Just Gave North Korea a New Internet Connection

A new internet connectivity has been spotted in North Korea via Russian telecommunications company, TransTeleCom, amid rising tensions betwe...

Children in China Use Social Media, Messaging Apps By Age 3, Survey Finds

Chinese children are going online at increasingly younger ages, engaging in various activities from entertainment to shopping. The news come...

Foreign Internet Celebrities Are Making Up to $60,000 Per Post in China

Expected to surpass $14 billion next year, China’s internet celebrity economy has never been more lucrative. This is why it’s not surprising...

Teen Dies After Two Days at ‘Gentle’ Internet Addiction Camp in China

A Chinese teenager, Li Ao, was rushed to the hospital days after attending an internet addiction treatment facility in Anhui Province, but p...

Rich North Koreans Are Using the Internet for Facebook and Porn

Top-level North Koreans are able to access the internet and use it to browse Facebook, watch porn and do other common online activities, a n...

No, China is Not Banning Personal VPNs

The Chinese government has denied earlier reports that it is seeking to shut down even personal VPNs in China. Citing sources “familiar with...

Indian State Says Internet is a Basic Human Right, Vows Free Wi-Fi For Citizens

Known as India’s “most advanced society,” the tropical state of Kerala has declared internet a basic human right, promising all citizens fre...

Almost 100% of South Korea Has Internet Speeds That Will Make You Cry

South Korea continues to be the world’s envy in internet connection where nearly 100% of its households are now able to access the wor...

China Has a New Plan to Cut Off People’s Internet If There’s a Crisis

China has drafted a bill that would give police the power to disconnect people from the Internet in times of natural disasters, public healt...

Russia Asks China for Help in Censoring The Internet

In Russia’s bid to control the nation’s internet, it has set in place new laws and systems that would allow the government to monitor and fi...

Man Creates Map of Airport Wi-Fi Passwords From Around the World

A computer security engineer has created a map that shows Wi-Fi passwords from airports all around the world. Anil Polat retrieves passwords...

China is Testing the Fastest Mobile Internet The World Has Ever Seen

China has started running trials for 5G internet connection technology. The country is set to distribute equipment across 100 cities in 20 p...

Teen Girl Kills Mom After Suffering Abuse at Internet Addiction Boot Camp in China

A teenager in China starved her own mother to death after reportedly going through a tough time at an internet addiction boot camp that her ...

North Korea Accidentally Leaks Its Heavily Guarded Secret Internet to The World

The North Korean regime is known to be overly protective of its privacy, but a recent internet security breach exposed some of the inner wor...

Microsoft-Backed Startup Has a Genius Way to Give People Wi-Fi in the Philippines

Internet access to some parts of the world is either extremely limited or non-existent. It’s no secret that the Philippines has one of the w...

New Report Reveals the Countries With the Best and Worst Internet Speeds

Asia is home to the fastest internet connection in the world with Singapore and South Korea leading the pack. The average connection in the...

Man Quits His Job, Rents a Kia and Finds the Strangest Ways to Go Broke

A man named Daniel quit his job and convinced his photographer friend Benson to follow him around on a 13,000-mile road trip across the Uni...

An Indian Village Just Banned Young Women From Using Cell Phones For the Saddest Reason Ever

The world has made great strides in connecting parts of the world that lack internet access to the world wide web, but an unsurprising group...

Why India Just Banned Facebook’s Free Internet Service

On Monday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) banned Facebook’s free internet service to the masses after rolling out a new se...

Websites Can Now Sense Your Mood Through Your Mouse Clicks

There are several ways to tell if someone is angry: the words they use, the tone of their voice, their facial expressions, or even the way s...

Why Over 37 Million People Around the World Will Be Cut Off From the Internet on Jan. 1

Come New Year’s Day, nearly 40 million people around the world with phones or computers more than 5 years old will be cut off from the newly...